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Wordless picture books

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Reallytired · 01/02/2009 17:46

Does anyone know where you can get wordless picture books that were used in the past to teach children how to read as cheaply as possible.

I want to get some to improve my son's story telling skills. He is an excellent reader, but I would like to improve his independent writing by getting to describe what is happening in a picture verbally.

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AbbyLou · 01/02/2009 17:53

ORT Stage 1 (the grey ones) don't have any words. Ds is 'reading' them at Nursery at the moment.

wheresthehamster · 01/02/2009 18:35

We have Ginn level 1 little books in school - titles like 'The king's sock' 'When puppy got lost'. There's whole sets of them -you might find some on Ebay or Amazon

TotalChaos · 01/02/2009 18:37

The Book of the Snowman by Raymond Briggs is wordless. Also Hug, Yes and Tall by Jez Alborough.

browntrout · 01/02/2009 18:38

I have a few Jez Alborough books and they have either no words or one or so per page. I like them as I can vary the story each time I read it and DD likes telling me the story from the pictures. Some of his others do have words but a lot dont.

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Reallytired · 01/02/2009 20:27

I think the snowman sounds good. My son was taught to read by synthetic phonics so never had wordless books. He is in year 2 and I want him to use the pictures as a prompt for writing. At least the snowman is not too babyish.

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